Friday, December 31, 2010

As today, more than ever, we've determined to strive as ever, after enjoying the reaps of victorious works, of enduring pain and anguish brought by measures surrounding us just to continue the struggle against the system that is, rotten, dilapidated, desperate for power.

Yes, that we have noticed the elections, Arroyo's desencion from power, Aquino's presidency, the hostage crisis, even the significant protests against tuition hikes, struggles for land reform, increase in wages and other offensives that, even in this present administration, although wearing the cloak of "reform" and "change" is still not enough to alleviate the problems in the society.

These also same around the world, that in the latter months, we sought protests in Europe, Asia, and in America against the oppressive measures, that in fact, unveils the rotten conditions coming from every societies ruled by privileged cliques, power-hungry individuals, that makes the entire people, especially the underdog masses, endure the pain in their backs till their untimely deaths if possible.

But then,

It doesn't mean that through these events, we must get contented to it. And in this new year coming, lies tasks that, in a deepest sense, carries a reason-and that is to expose, oppose, destroy the order that is, repressive. After all, for years, the specter of what Marx hath said haunts the entire capitalist dominated world; and it will never stop as more and more protests, strikes, offensives come especially this 2011 and its opening month.

In this new year, may peace be prevail-but the struggle must continue till victory.

I would like to extend my most ardent greetings on the occasion of the coming New Year. We approach 2011 in the face of intensifying crisis, poverty and suffering. As we have witnessed these past few months under the new Aquino government, we cannot expect any changes that would bring any good or relief to the toiling masses and the people.

With the New Year, let us renew our resolve to achieve revolutionary change. Revolution is the only light that bursts through the cloudy sky and gives hope to the people. Let us achieve many more of the brilliant revolutionary victories we have attained in the past years. In 2011, let us achieve new and bigger victories in all fields of struggle. Despite the hardship and pain, let us devote all our strength and abilities to the advancement and victory of the revolution.

Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) -- The concrete wall partitioning the Korean Peninsula into two parts is a grudge-bearing wall as it blocks reunification and development of the Korean nation, said Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a by-lined article.

The south Korean military dictatorial forces built the concrete wall 31 years ago to pursue the permanent division of the Korean nation and confrontation between the north and the south.

The existence of the wall is shame on the Korean nation as it serves the purpose of physically quelling the desire of the Koreans for reconciliation, unity and reunification.

It was the thrice-cursed crime that the anti-reunification forces built on the inviolable land of the country such wall the like of which can hardly be found in any other part of the world.

The United States was the chief architect of this wall and its firm defender. It has, therefore, been dead-set against the demolition of the wall and has egged the puppet forces on to reinforce it in order to achieve its strategic aim to dominate Northeast Asia, using the peninsula as a base.

The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean conservative forces are maintaining the wall, pursuant to their policy to stifle the DPRK.

To keep the wall as it is means pursuance of confrontation and war.

If the south Korean conservative forces persistently pursue confrontation with fellow countrymen, refusing to pull down the wall quite contrary to the trend of the times, they will not be able to escape a stern punishment of history.

Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) -- The U.S. "anti-terrorism war" strategy for aggression faces failure and collapse this year, says Rodong Sinmun Thursday in a bylined article.

The U.S. is trying to gain the hegemony over the world by containing its rivals and the anti-imperialist and independent countries through its criminal "anti-terrorism war" strategy for impure purposes, but this is just a pipedream, the article says, and goes on:

It is already well-known that the U.S. poured an enormous amount of money on the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq in the past. This squandering put the U.S. at a serious political and economic crisis and its predominant position decreased as never before. This year the U.S. fell into a quagmire.

Just like the failed Iraq-"pacification" strategy, its Afghanistan-"pacification" strategy has become impossible to be carried out. This year witnessed the biggest death toll of U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the start of the war.

This year the U.S. moved the main theatre of its "anti-terrorism" war from Iraq to Afghanistan and reinforced its troops to intensify the military operation. But such efforts resulted in only great loss. Many Americans protest against their government, regarding the Afghanistan war as an unnecessary war which is not worth fighting.

Those countries drawn into the "anti-terrorism war" strategy of the U.S. are trying to withdraw from it and the movement against this strategy is getting hotter on a global scale. This clearly shows that the strategy of the U.S. is in trouble.

The criminal "anti-terrorism war" strategy on the verge of bankruptcy augurs the downfall of the U.S.

Pyongyang, December 29 (KCNA) – "The DPRK′s building of an independent light water reactor and its operation of uranium enrichment factory are the natural outcome of the United States′ perfidy as it broke its promise to provide light water reactors to it," observed Rodong Sinmun Wednesday in a signed commentary.

"The building of the independent LWR to round off the structure of nuclear energy industry is making brisk headway in the DPRK and a modern uranium enrichment factory with thousands of centrifuges is operating on a normal footing to feed fuel to the LWR," the commentary noted, and continued:

"This being a hard reality, the U.S. and other forces, prompted by their perverted intentions, are contemplating stronger pressure and sanctions against the DPRK over its issue of LWR though it is meant for producing electricity".

"The DPRK chose to build an independent LWR with its own resources and its own technology to round off the structure of the Juche-oriented nuclear energy industry. This was its natural option in the light of the legitimate right to nuclear activities for peaceful purposes, the worldwide trend of developing nuclear energy and the country′s daily increasing demand for electricity".

"The U.S. has no face to take issue with the DPRK′s nuclear activities for peaceful purposes."

"The DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework signed in 1994 calls on the U.S. to build two LWRs and provide them to the DPRK on a turn-key basis by 2003."

"Had the U.S. kept the above-said promise, the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula would have not remained so complicated as now."

"It is universally recognized right of the countries both inside and outside the NPT to exercise the above-said right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. It is entirely just for the DPRK to exercise this legitimate rig."

1. Several officials here say that the issue of revolutionary tax being imposed on firms, such as mining companies, should be among the agenda in the talks. what's your take on this?

Answer: There is yet no peace agreement. The two conflicting sides of the civil war in the Philippines are still negotiating. Everyone must recognize the fact that there are two governments in the Philippines.

One is the reactionary government of the big compradors and landlords seated in Manila and headed by Noynoy Aquino. The other is the revolutionary government of workers and peasants based in the countryside and led by the Communist Party of the Philippines.

The revolutionary government has always made it clear that it collects taxes in order to cover the costs of administration, defense, land reform, promotion of production and social programs, including public education, health, cultural and other activities.

The GRP civilian and military officials are wrong and are engaged in disinformation when they say that the revolutionary forces are collecting taxes from foreign mining companies. My understanding of the policy of the revolutionary government is banning, disabling and dismantling such mining companies because they damage the economy and environment and take away land from land reform. Please read the latest policy statements of the CPP in www.philippinerevolution.net These are the 42nd anniversary statement of the CPP on December 26 and the reiteration of policy regarding mining on December 29.

May I add that the foreign mining companies take away nonrenewable mineral resources and damage permanently the people's aspiration for national industrialization. The CPP and other major patriotic organizations as well as the main religious organizations are opposed to the treasonous plunder of mineral resources by 100 per cent foreign-owned mining companies.

2. While not a precondition, do you agree that this should stop as confidence-building measure for the talks?

Answer: It is the duty and prerogative of the people's revolutionary government to collect taxes for the purposes beneficial to the people. In contrast, the reactionary government collects taxes and engages in excessive foreign and domestic borrowing to serve the purposes of the foreign monopolies, the big compradors, landlords and the corrupt officials.

My understanding of the policy pronouncements of the CPP as leading party in the people's revolutionary government is that it will not collect taxes from the foreign mining companies but will ban, disable and dismantle such companies. That should raise the confidence of the people in their revolutionary government and expose the treasonous character of the reactionary govenment.

3. What are the other possible agenda in both the january and february meetings?

Answer: The preliminary meeting in Oslo in January 14 to 18 will resolve certain issues and thus pave the way for the resumption of formal talks in February 15 to 21. The most important issues in the preliminary meeting pertain to compliance with the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees, the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law and certain confidence-building and goodwill measures.

The agenda in the resumption of formal talks will include exchange of credentials between the two panels, the reaffirmation of the existing agreements, compliance with JASIG, implmentation of CARHRIHL, accelerated negotiations on social and economic reforms by the Reciprocal Working Committees, the concept of working group on political and constitutional reforms and confidence-building and goodwill measures.

In behalf of all revolutionary organizations under the umbrella of the National Democratic Front-Mindanao, we wish to congratulate and salute the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) as it celebrates today its 42nd founding anniversary. With utmost admiration, we salute all the heroes and martyrs who offered their lives in the struggle for national freedom, social justice, genuine democracy and lasting peace.

The revolutionary victories of the past 42 years could not have been achieved without the perseverance and determination of the Filipino people to carry forward arduous struggles. Neither could these have been achieved without the correct leadership of the CPP which has served as the beacon of the people’s armed revolution and mass struggles.

From one Party group when the CPP first took root in Mindanao in 1971, there are now five Regional Committees covering the entire island. The total party membership in Mindanao numbering several thousand lead a few hundred thousands of organized masses.

The Party leads scores of New People’s Army (NPA) platoons and companies in the island. There are now 42 guerrilla fronts from 39 last year. The NPA in Mindanao have launched more than 250 tactical offensives this year against military, paramilitary and police forces seizing almost 200 high powered rifles. We have maintained a casualty ratio of 10 is to 1 between the AFP and the NPA. Enemy forces lost an equivalent of a battalion of men.

The Party leads the people’s struggle in Mindanao for land reform and other basic economic issues, human rights and other political rights, right to self-determination of the Lumad people including that of our Moro brothers, the struggle against US political and military intervention as well as the protection and rehabilitation of our environment. The Party has strengthened and broadened the revolutionary united front in the whole island.

The revolutionary forces have weathered the violent sustained attacks of successive reactionary regimes from the imposition of martial law in 1972. From the early phase of the strategic defensive stage, the protracted people’s war has advanced to the middle phase and has set sights on fulfilling the requirements for completing the last phase in the next five years and entering the stage of the strategic stalemate afterwards.

The objectives of the AFP’s brutal military campaigns under Oplan Bantay Laya have been completely frustrated. Instead of being decimated by the Oplan bantay Laya 1 (2001-2005), the whole revolutionary movement has grown bigger and stronger. Oplan Bantay Laya 2 (2006-2010) failed not only in reducing the revolutionary forces to inconsequentiality, but in stopping as well the continued advance of the people’s war.

The current new democratic revolution has achieved far greater victories than all the previous revolutionary movements of the Filipino people. This clearly shows the maturity and competence of the CPP to lead and advance the people’s revolution.

In contrast, the ruling social system is beset with an ever worsening economic and political crisis. The world capitalist system is suffering from a prolonged depression. The Filipino people suffer ever worsening conditions as a result of US- and IMF-imposed policies of liberalization, privatization, deregulation and denationalization. The people have long lost hope that their national and democratic aspirations can be achieved under the current ruling system.

The US-Aquino regime’s newly unveiled Oplan Bayanihan is basically a rehash of the Oplan Bantay Laya in terms of relying on a brutal military campaign of suppression. Patterned after the US Counter-insurgency Guide, Oplan Bayanihan seeks to camouflage the brutality of the fascist war with “human rights” rhetoric, psywar lies, doleout campaigns, so-called community organizing for peace and development and other political gimmicks.

Just like the AFP’s previous campaigns, Oplan Bayanihan will be counter-productive both economically and politically. It will only drain the resources of the government and further draw the people’s ire. In Mindanao, this will only worsen the rage of the Lumad, Moro and non-Moro people and drive them to unite under the NDF’s banner and CPP’s leadership.

The future is bright! But we have a multitude of task ahead of us. Here in Mindanao, the more developed regions must advance even more vigorously and achieve greater victories. They should extend help to the smaller regions. The smaller regions, on the other hand, must strive to overcome their shortcomings, learn from the positive experiences of other regions and move forward in bigger strides.

In line with the Party’s central call, the CPP in Mindanao must boldly expand and strengthen the Party. The Party must be able to swiftly resolve problems in all fields of work in order to decisively put itself in a position to achieve quantitatively far greater victories in the next few years.

The Party in Mindanao must be able to lead the masses in their millions in anti-feudal, anti-imperialist and anti-fascist mass struggles. The Party in Mindanao must be able to lead, strengthen and expand the New People’s Army to intensify tactical offensives to annihilate enemy forces and seize a far greater number of weapons. The Party in Mindanao must be able to further strengthen the basic alliance of workers and peasants and further broaden the united front.

We are confident that the CPP and all revolutionary forces under its leadership will be able to fulfill the tasks that lie ahead. We look forward to celebrating greater victories in the next few years.

Long live the Communist Party of the Philippines!Long live the National Democratic Front!Carry forward the people’s war!

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today reiterated the policy by the people's democratic government banning all enterprises, including big foreign mining and logging firms, that engage in large-scale plunder of the natural resources, landgrabbing and destruction of the environment.

The policy calls for the people's democratic government to "ban, disable and dismantle" such firms which violate the welfare and interests of the people and disregard the rules and regulations of the people's democratic government. These firms also connive with and use the fascist armed forces and paramilitary to protect their plunderous interests and fight the revolutionary forces.

The reiteration was made by the CPP amid the uproar raised by the Philippine government over reports that big, foreign mining companies are threatening to pull out their operations in protest over increases in "taxes" being imposed by the revolutionary movement. Officials of the government negotiating panel even declared that they would take up the matter in the upcoming talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in Oslo, Norway.

The CPP dismissed accusations by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) that the NPA "collects taxes" from mining companies.

"Large-scale foreign mining operations in the Philippines are among the worst abusers of the environment. Their operations cause siltation and poisoning of rivers, water sources and agricultural lands and other grave destruction of the natural environment," said the CPP.

"The large-scale foreign mining companies earn superprofits by plundering the Filipino people's natural resources, grabbing the people's land, especially the ancestral lands of national minorities, exploiting the workers and colluding with corrupt top government officials. They put up hostile private armies, and also use the regular forces as well as the paramilitary units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to secure their enterprises, suppress the mass resistance against their operations and connive in counterrevolutionary operations."

"The Filipino people are bearing the brunt of the massive environmental destruction, land grabbing, exploitation and brutal suppression perpetrated by these big mining companies," said the CPP. "That is why broad alliances of environmentalist organizations, church people, national minority rights advocates, local government units and other sectors of the people have been built in various provinces that strongly oppose the destructive operations of these big, mining companies."

"Furthermore, the people's democratic government has directed the NPA to carry out punitive actions against these mining companies to put a stop to their operations," added the CPP. "In certain circumstances, fines have been levied on these companies and turned over to the people as a form of reparation for the destruction these companies have caused and to discourage their further plunderous operations."

"To a great extent, the people's persistent political and legal struggles and building of alliances, as well as the armed actions of the NPA have combined to put pressure against these destructive big mining companies and force a number of them to stop their operations," said the CPP. "If the remaining companies do pull out, it is something for the Filipino people to celebrate."

The CPP said that if the GRP negotiating panel does raise their concern over the supposed imposition of "revolutionary taxation" on big mining operations in the upcoming talks, the thing that has to be settled first "is whether these big mining interests are any good at all for the benefit of the people, the economy and the country. There should be a thoroughgoing accounting of the massive destruction of the environment, the land grabbed and the superprofits earned by these companies vis-a-vis the benefits claimed by the Philippine government."

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) decried numerous ceasefire violations by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as the latter continues to carry out aggressive counterinsurgency operations and terrorism in various places in the country. The 19-day reciprocal and concurrent holiday ceasefire between the AFP and the New People's Army (NPA) began on December 16, 2010 and will last until January 3, 2011.

"Local mass organizations and NPA units have reported that the AFP continues to carry out aggressive operations, terrorizing the masses in the guerrilla fronts where the NPA operates," said the CPP. "The AFP thus shows its scorn and mockery of the mutual ceasefire as its units continue to launch offensive military operations."

A partial report from the Ilocos-Cordillera Region listed the following violations:

a) On December 16, the 5th ID sent a special commando unit against target NPA forces and sympathizers along the boundary of Aguinaldo town in Ifugao and Natonin town in Mountain Province. The following day, the 5th ID's commando forces positioned themselves in Sitio Tappo, Brgy. Banawel, Natonin where offensive military operations, side-by-side with Civil-Military Operations (CMO) for cover, were then being conducted by a Re-engineered Special Operations Team (RSOT) of the 5th ID.

b) Offensive RSOT operations are now simultaneously being carried out in other barangays of Natonin, including Tonglayan, Alunugan, Botac, Balangaw, Banawel, Saliyok at Maducayan, and also in Bananao, Botigue and several other barangays of Paracelis town, also in Mountain Province. These special operations teams harass and threaten local residents suspected of being members or sympathizers of the NPA.

The CPP also disclosed that partial reports have been received from NPA units in the Southern Tagalog region, which include the following ceasefire violations by AFP forces:

a) On December 16-17, units under the Philippine Army's 5th Infantry Batallion (5th IBPA) carried out offensive military operations in Barangays White Cliff, Busuk-Busukan and San Juan, all in San Narciso town, Quezon.

b) On December 17, a 24-man platoon of the 85th IBPA conducted military operations in Sitio Mageron, Brgy. Nasalaan, San Francisco town, where they rounded up the menfolk and forced them to undress.

c) On December 22, operating troops from the detachment of the 74th IBPA in Brgy. Ilayang Tayuman in San Francisco town joined the operations of the 85th IBPA and harassed the residents of Barangays Sinagtala and Whitecliff in San Narciso town, maliciously taking pictures of the residents.

d) On December 23, military operations were also carried out in Brgy. San Pedro, Mulanay town, Quezon simultaneous with military operations in Brgy. Busuk-busukan in San Narciso.

e) Company-size military operations continue to be conducted by joint forces of the 85th IBPA and 74th IBPA in other barangays of San Narciso, including Binay, Busok-busokan, San Vicente and Vigo Central.

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- Former State Secretary Kissinger and other former U.S. high-ranking officials recognized the illegality of the "northern limit line" in the West Sea of Korea, the U.S. media disclosed, according to Rodong Sinmun Tuesday.

The U.S. has so far tried to convince the world of the "substantiality" of the line and supported the south Korean puppet regime′s insistence on it, the newspaper commentary says, and goes on:

The "northern limit line" was unilaterally drawn in the West Sea of Korea by Clark, the then UN forces commander, on August 30, 1953 right after the conclusion of the Armistice Agreement. It is a bogus line of no legal ground and validity.

The DPRK and the U.S. are belligerent parties of the Korean War.

It is necessary for the two sides to sit face to face and reach an agreement through discussion to fix an extension of the military demarcation line in the West Sea of Korea.

However, Clark drew the "northern limit line" in the territorial waters of Korea in violation of international law with neither prior consultation nor notification to the DPRK.

This line has been a main cause of many unexpected military conflicts and disputes in the West Sea of Korea since the ceasefire.

The "northern limit line" invented by the U.S. to meet its intention is like a fuse and a time bomb for igniting the second Korean war.

The U.S can never conceal its nature as an arch criminal escalating instability and tension on the Korean Peninsula, sparking off north-south military conflict and increasing the danger of a new war.

The DPRK will never recognize the illegal "northern limit line." The U.S. had better understand it and stop insisting on the "northern limit line".

MOUNT DIWATA, Philippines — Too poor to afford school beyond fourth grade in the southern Philippines, 19-year-old Johnny Buyo walked away from home six months ago to join the communist rebellion — one of Asia’s longest-running. He was handed a rusty M16 rifle, which he vowed to keep for life.

The teenager recently gathered with an older generation of battle-hardened veterans in their 60s for a celebration marking the 42nd anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines, whose insurgency withstood decades of crackdown by five Philippine presidents.

“It’s scary at first but later, you gain confidence when you think that you’re fighting for the people,” said Buyo, the rifle slung on his tiny frame.

Amid a Christmas cease-fire and looming peace talks with President Benigno Aquino III’s new government, about 80 Maoist guerrillas armed with rifles and grenade launchers marched in a remote rice-farming village in the foothills of Mount Diwata in southern Surigao del Sur province as more than 2,000 villagers, relatives and sympathizers cheered.

Persistent poverty in the Philippines’ southern region fuels popular support for the movement, inspiring new generations to join even as Cold War communist insurgencies fade into memory across much of the rest of the world.

It has been 38 years since Jorge Madlos, then a student activist, quit university and went underground after then-Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in 1972. Now 62, the prominent rebel spokesman — distinguished by his trademark Mao-style cap and goatee — says only one thing can make him leave his comrades.

“Our retirement comes in death,” Madlos said.

At Sunday’s ceremony, smiling guerrillas handed out 2011 calendars, red pins and packs of roasted pork and rice. They belted out nationalist songs on a stage in a rice field festooned with the hammer and sickle communist symbol. Relatives and friends used the occasion for reunions with rebels, including a mother who said she has not seen her son since he joined the guerrillas 10 years ago.

The chaotic scene under a broiling noontime sun both depicted the rebels’ resiliency and constraints.

We, the Central Committee of Japan Communist League (JCL) would like to extend our revolutionary congratulations to all comrades of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of the reestablishment of CPP.

We have just learned with joy that Morong 43 health workers were released after ten month's trumped up charges and unjust detention. We are very happy and encouraged to know Filipino people are advancing the revolutionary struggle against imperialism and its puppet regime. However, we also know the Aquino administration has left behind all of his promise, and continues basic policy of extra-judicial killings, which has no difference with the former Arroyo regime. The new administration follows the U.S.-led new liberal economic policy, anti-terrorism war, and rampant human rights violation, which accelerates suffering of the people and thus leads to mass uprising for survival. There is no other way for people than to advance struggles. It is great inspiration to us that CPP wins trust from the people and undertakes hard and vital role in every arena of the people's struggle. We hope that upcoming peace talks will bring about progress in your activities as well as Filipino people's movement.

Like in the Philippines, the new governments in Japan and the U.S. have soon exposed their true color. What happened nowadays shows that they have no intention to serve people in respective country but to serve capitalists and ruling class. Facing the serious crisis of world capitalism, imperialists are groaning to get out of the crisis but in vain. On the other hand, most working class and people in the world are also suffering from poverty, hunger, 'anti-terrorism' war, and human rights abuse, etc.

It has become clear that the only way for the exploited and oppressed people o get out of the present distress is to beat down the ruling class and capitalist system, and build socialist system. Therefore, let's strengthen international anti-imperialist united front and international proletarian revolutionary solidarity!

Long live the revolutionary struggle led by CPP in the Philippines!Long live the revolutionary solidarity relation between CPP and JCL!Long live the proletarian internationalism!

December 26, 2010The Central Committee of Japan Communist League (JCL)

Ka Oris, spokesman of the CPP-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Mindanao, said President Benigno S. Aquino III’s new counter-insurgency program dubbed “Oplan Bayanihan” will become another “failure” like the Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) 1 and 2 of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration.

EASTERN MINDANAO — The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) held what it called its grandest anniversary celebration ever somewhere in the Caraga region on Dec. 26, marking its 42 years of existence.

Jorge Madlos, also known as Ka Oris, spokesman of the CPP-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Mindanao, said that at least 8,000 individuals from four regions in Mindanao attended the event. About 30 large vehicles brought peasants, workers, students, religious, lawyers and the media to the event that threaded through several military and police checkpoints to reach the venue — a mere kilometer away from the provincial highway.

“Checkpoints were setup by the 4th Infantry Division all over the Caraga region in a desperate attempt by the AFP to prevent the people from joining the celebrations of the CPP anniversary,” said Ka Oris.

According to a press release sent by NDF-Mindanao, traffic built up to around two kilometers along the main highway leading to San Agustin town, Surigao del Sur, because of the checkpoints set up by military and police operatives. “The military and police unreasonably blocked the people’s free movement insisting on listing all the license numbers of vehicles, asking for registration papers and checking the license of drivers,” Ka Oris said.

The vehicles were only allowed to proceed when reporters and cameramen from local and international media outfits arrived, said Ka Oris. “The attempts to stop people from joining the celebrations of the CPP violated the spirit and intent of the simultaneous ceasefire which, among others, was meant to allow personnel of both sides to be with their families and friends to hold celebrations during the holidays,” added Ka Oris.

Despite the harassments at the checkpoints, the participants to the celebration were able to proceed to the venue.

The Communist Party of the Philippines held its grandest anniversary celebration ever on December 26. (Photo by Raymund B. Villanueva/Kodao Productions/bulatlat.com)

From about nine in the morning, the crowd freely mingled with at least two full companies of New People’s Army (NPA) fighters and having their pictures taken with the uniformed guerillas armed with high-powered assault and sniper rifles. Children were carried on their parents’ shoulders to get a clear view of the speakers and the performers on the elevated stage while several “kitchen teams” were preparing lunch under tents, evoking a town fiesta atmosphere. Makeshift toilets around the main venue were also constructed in anticipation of the huge crowd even as surrounding houses opened their doors to strangers in search of other toilets.

A pass-in-review by an NPA company -– three platoons of 25 fighters each — at the beginning of the program had the crowd surging forward to be as close to the rebels, some with colorfully painted faces in preparation for their own “cultural performances” later in the program.

In his speech, Ka Oris congratulated the CPP as it established three new guerilla fronts in Mindanao from last year’s 39. He said that each front has platoon or company-sized rebel formations on top of “people’s militias.”

The rebel spokesman also announced that the NPA launched 250 tactical offensives in 2010, seizing about 200 high-powered firearms from government troops and achieving a “casualty ratio” of 10 government soldiers for every rebel killed in action.

Ka Oris criticized President Benigno S. Aquino III’s new counter-insurgency program dubbed “Oplan Bayanihan,” calling it another “impending failure” like the Oplans Bantay Laya (OBL) 1 and 2 of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration.

“Instead of being decimated by OBL 1, the whole revolutionary movement has grown bigger and stronger. OBL 2 failed not only in reducing the revolutionary forces to inconsequentiality but in stopping the continued advance of the people’s war,” he said.

Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan is a rehash of old counter-insurgency programs that seek to deodorize the brutality of the “fascist government” with human-rights rhetoric, psy-war lies, dole-out campaigns, so-called community organizing for peace and development, and other political gimmickry, Ka Oris added.

The NDFP-Mindanao spokesman urged the CPP to “boldly expand and strengthen” itself and the NPA “to annihilate its enemies and seize more weapons.” He also called on the CPP to fulfill the requirements for completing the strategic defensive stage of its Maoist revolution in the next five years to achieve the stage of “strategic stalemate” against the government of the Philippines.

The celebrations included a “peace forum” where Ka Oris explained the NDFP’s “peace Agenda” as he reiterated that the impending formal peace talks between the NDFP and the Philippines in Oslo, Norway, in February follow the Joint Hague Declaration of 1992. Representatives from the religious, peasant, workers, legal, and youth sectors, indigenous peoples, and local government units took turns in expressing support to the formal peace talks. He also answered questions about local peasant struggles against foreign-owned plantations and environment issues.

A pass-in-review by an NPA company -– three platoons of 25 fighters each — at the beginning of the program marking the 42nd anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines. (Photo by Raymund B. Villanueva/Kodao Productions/bulatlat.com/ bulatlat.com)

He also drew enthusiastic applause when he said that the NPA was the first to recognize gay rights as human rights, in response to a question posed by a group of gays in the audience.

In the succeeding press conference, he refused to be baited into badmouthing President Aquino, saying “it is bad form to do so when we are about to talk to his government across the negotiating table.”

Ka Oris instead praised the appointment of lawyers Alex Padilla and Pablo Sanidad to the negotiating panel of the GRP in its talks with the NDFP.

The rebel leader also tried to be diplomatic against the Philippine Army’s 401st Infantry Brigade, describing its harassments on civilian participants and the media as “unfriendly,” even as journalists were incensed at being interrogated at checkpoints and military camps causing some of them to miss the start of the celebrations.

“We thank the media on its steadfast defense of the people’s right to be informed to important political events such as these unprecedented celebrations of the CPP’s anniversary in terms of attendance,” he said.

He denied that they invited the media to act as human shield against possible attacks by government troops to disrupt the celebrations.

“Apart from the harassments, we think that it would be bad for the reactionary army to attack this large mass gathering. But should they indeed attack the NPA in this area has decided earlier to just withdraw rather than engage the enemy. This is to spare the civilians from possible harm,” he explained.

“In all my 30 years as a revolutionary guerilla I have never seen an (CPP) anniversary celebration as huge as this. It is 3:30 in the afternoon and, as you can see, the people are still here having a good time,” Ka Oris said.

He said the CPP invites civilians and supporters to guerilla zones during anniversary celebrations not for its sole benefit. “We are doing this because the masses want to celebrate the anniversary of the party and its army that genuinely serve them. They want these celebrations as much as we do, as you can see for yourselves,” he told the members of the media.

After most of the local and national media as well as church and local government representatives have left delegations from five neighboring provinces in Eastern Mindanao tried to outdo each other with their own “cultural performances.” Revolutionary songs performed by children drew the loudest roars of approval from the crowd and the rebels. The humid air was constantly punctured with shouts of “Long live the Communist Party!” during and after each performance.

The celebration was reluctantly ended at about four in the afternoon, after the emcees explained that the 50-square meter stage had to be dismantled and the venue cleaned by the rebels before it got dark.

As a steady stream of trucks, buses and jeepneys turned from the village road to the provincial highway Philippine Army and Philippine National Police personnel tried to take videos of plate numbers and people’s faces. More checkpoints and road blocks were set up on roads leading from one of the biggest gatherings inside a guerilla zone in history.

It all started last last year, when I listened to the radio known for its European music, that in fact caters to the far-right. That radio, named "Radio Bandiera Nera" is trying to be the online countercultural radio being brodcasted much via the internet.

But then,

I myself notice much that despite its far-right tone, of promoting Casa Pound and other Far-Right organizations, especially in Italy, the music being played much is somewhat more into avant garde, industrial, to oi! and metal of all kinds. While I, a left-winger, listened much to it not caring its right-wing sentiment being promoted by that online radio.

Secondly, I myself is an avid listener of those music, and at least it offers somewhat an alternative to the mainstream music usually played in the Radio, or shown in MTV featuring nonsense music (except to those unforgettable, good to listen ones of course) that makes a person suffered by a symptom named "Last Song Syndrome."

And the songs like "Nur Ihr Allein", "Alexanderplatz", and "Friday im in Love" are unforgettable to listen-especially the latter that once I heard it when I was young; while song Alexanderplatz even reminds of writing a story I usually do so. Same as the song made by In Extremo that intensifies my interest in my subgenre.

After all,As according to the first writeup that introduced the online radio station, it said:

"As I listened to the music played in RBI, devoid of their message of "white power", "anti-socialism", somehow it also mirrors the fact that the system rotten and its people desired a need for change. Whether it is "the Cure" or any other kind, even Musikangbayan and the ones who sung "Awit ng Rebolusyonaryo" (Song of the Revolutionary), they wanted change in all sorts-including love and relationships..."

Last December 26, 2010, people from all walks of like joined the celebrations of the 42nd founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in guerilla zones, especially in Mindanao wherein scenes being shown, and it what was described as "one of the biggest celebrations of the revolutionary victories of the Filipino people exhibiting the continuing growth of the revolutionary movement led by the CPP."

However, there are actions laid by the Reactionary Government, though its Armed Forces that is detrimental to the freedom of movement-such as checkpoints, taking up pictures at spectators-to-be, and even videoing them. These actions laid by the Armed Forces of the rotten order, through the cloak of security and order in the countryside in fact, harasses participants and dissuade them from proceeding to the site of the celebrations-all in violation of the spirit and intent of the 19-day ceasefire laid by the GRP-NDF.

As according to NDF-Mindanao spokesperson Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos, he said that a few more thousand people failed to join the celebrations because of the checkpoints setup by the military and police. As:

"Checkpoints were setup by the 4th Infantry Division all over the Caraga region in a desperate attempt by the AFP to prevent the people from joining the celebrations of the CPP anniversary."

Isn't it obvious that in the name of national security they tend to evade the agreements through setting forth checkpoints, surveillance and other related actions detrimental to the suspension of military operations?

As according to Ka Oris:

"The military and police unreasonably blocked the people's free movement insisting on listing all the license numbers of vehicles, asking for registration papers and checking the license of drivers."

For sure the Armed Forces would give a retaliatory statement in regards to their actions justifying the checkpoints and surveillance of spectators-that was only relented when reporters and cameramen from local and international media outfits arrived and witnessed the harassments made by these thugs in uniform.

After all, Ka Oris even said that:

"The attempts to stop people from joining the celebrations of the CPP violated the spirit and intent of the simultaneous ceasefire which, among others, aim at allowing personnel of both sides to be with their families and friends to hold celebrations during the holidays,"

He even added that:

"Despite the harassments, the celebrations pushed through and was carried out successfully," added Ka Oris. Thousands of peasants and lumad people, fisherfolk, as well as workers and students from town centers joined a company of New People's Army (NPA) Red fighters in a field surrounded by coconut trees and rice paddies. "This shows the deep and widespread support of the people for the Communist Party and the revolutionary movement."

After all,

What the enemy thinks about those who join the festivities, including the families, and even the journalists looking for a scope, local or international, are sympathizers and ought to be persecuted "to the fullest extent of the law." And that law? Is their personal insight about those who resist against their rotten, antiquated order as terrorists.

Monday, December 27, 2010

Several thousand people joined celebrations yesterday of the 42nd founding anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in a what was described as "one of the biggest celebrations of the revolutionary victories of the Filipino people exhibiting the continuing growth of the revolutionary movement led by the CPP."

At the same time, the CPP denounced the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) "for setting-up checkpoints along the route to the site of the assembly to harass participants and dissuade them from proceeding to the site of the celebrations in violation of the spirit and intent of the 19-day ceasefire."

The whole day celebration was hosted by the National Democratic Front-Mindanao.

According to NDF-Mindanao spokesperson Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos, a few more thousand people failed to join the celebrations because of the checkpoints setup by the military and police. "Checkpoints were setup by the 4th Infantry Division all over the Caraga region in a desperate attempt by the AFP to prevent the people from joining the celebrations of the CPP anniversary."

At around eight in the morning, traffic built up to around two kilometers along the main highway leading to San Agustin town, Surigao del Sur, as military and police operatives blocked scores of vehicles carrying participants. According to Ka Oris: "The military and police unreasonably blocked the people's free movement insisting on listing all the license numbers of vehicles, asking for registration papers and checking the license of drivers."

The military and police checkpoints only relented when reporters and cameramen from local and international media outfits arrived and witnessed the harassments.

"The attempts to stop people from joining the celebrations of the CPP violated the spirit and intent of the simultaneous ceasefire which, among others, aim at allowing personnel of both sides to be with their families and friends to hold celebrations during the holidays," added Ka Oris.

"Despite the harassments, the celebrations pushed through and was carried out successfully," added Ka Oris. Thousands of peasants and lumad people, fisherfolk, as well as workers and students from town centers joined a company of New People's Army (NPA) Red fighters in a field surrounded by coconut trees and rice paddies. "This shows the deep and widespread support of the people for the Communist Party and the revolutionary movement."

The occasion also served as an opportunity for Red fighters to be joined by their families.

According to the CPP, scores of other smaller assemblies were carried out in guerrilla fronts all over the country, as well as in factories, schools, offices, private homes and communities in cities and town centers.

Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- The U.S. and south Korean trigger-happy elements should not misjudge the will of the DPRK to preserve peace but immediately stop their reckless military provocations aimed at screwing up the tension on the Korean Peninsula.

Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed article, and goes on:

A madcap shelling exercise staged by the puppet forces in the waters off Yonphyong Island in the West Sea of Korea on Dec. 20, naval maneuvers conducted by a puppet navy fleet in the East Sea of Korea in its wake and the large-scale joint firing exercises staged by the puppet ground and air forces of south Korea in the central sector of the front, etc. were the products of the dangerous collusion between the U.S. and the south Korean puppet authorities.

The south Korean conservative authorities seek a way out of their ever-deepening ruling crisis in boosting cooperation with the U.S. and escalating the confrontation with fellow countrymen.

They consider this as leverage for getting rid of the crisis and confusion and staying in power. They orchestrated the Yonphyong Island shelling incident to achieve this purpose.

By perpetrating military provocations one after another in the West Sea of Korea the south Korean puppet forces sought to divert elsewhere the south Korean people′s attention and realize their wild ambition to invade the DPRK.

It was none other than the U.S. that egged those forces on to spark off the above-said shelling incident and escalate the tension on the Korean peninsula.

The U.S. is keen on increasing the tension on the peninsula, opposed to any process to preserve peace on it. This is designed to save its policy towards Asia and its strategy towards the DPRK from their repeated failures and retain its supremacy over the region.

Armed clashes have not occurred in the West Sea of Korea despite the dangerous collusion between the U.S. and south Korean war-like forces aimed at provoking a war of aggression against the DPRK. This is entirely thanks to the pluck, the self-restraint and steadfast will of the DPRK to preserve peace.

But there is a limit to its patience, too.

The puppet regime of south Korea is so despicable and coward that it cannot maintain its power even a moment without the protection of its American master. Its desperate efforts to do harm to the DPRK in reliance on this master would only precipitate its self-destruction

RESPECTING THE FORERUNNERS OF THE REVOLUTION IS A NOBLE MORAL OBLIGATION OF REVOLUTIONARIES

by KIM JONG IL

Discourse Published in Rodong Sinmun,the Organ of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea

December 25, 1995

Seventy years has elapsed since the dawn of the Korean revolution, which has advanced under the banner of the Juche idea. In this noble revolution several generations have shed their precious sweat and blood for people’s freedom, national independence and sovereignty and for the victory of socialism. A large number of revolutionaries have performed distinguished services and made brilliant achievements.

Our people respect the revolutionaries of the previous generations as their revolutionary seniors, set great store by their spirit and achievements in the struggle, and are carrying faithfully forward and developing the revolutionary cause pioneered by them. This is a noble morality developed by our people from generation to generation, as well as a basic factor that ensures the steady, triumphant development of our revolution even in the most complex situations.

The history of the world socialist movement provides the serious lesson that a revolution advances victoriously when revolutionary forefathers are respected and their accomplishments are preserved and developed, and that a revolution is abandoned and frustrated when revolutionary predecessors are betrayed and their accomplishments are negated. In several countries that had built socialism in the past, opportunists occupying the leadership of the parties and states defamed their revolutionary predecessors and obliterated their achievements. In consequence of their traitorous acts, the reputation of communists has been damaged, the image of socialism clouded, and the socialist system itself has ended in collapse.

Establishing a correct viewpoint and attitude towards revolutionary seniors is most important for the development of the socialist movement.

Only when the red flag of the revolution raised by the revolutionary forerunners is carried forward down through generations can the cause of independence for the popular masses, the socialist cause, emerge victorious.

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To respect its pioneers is the demand of the revolution and the noble moral obligation of revolutionaries.

Socialism advances to consummation as the successors carry on and develop down through generations what their predecessors achieved for the revolution. Their attitude towards their revolutionary forefathers means their attitude towards the revolution. It is an important matter relating to the destiny of the revolution.

Holding revolutionary seniors in esteem means putting forward in every way the revolutionaries who devoted everything to the struggle, championing and preserving their revolutionary ideas and achievements and carrying forward and developing these ideas and achievements. The predecessors’ noble revolutionary ideas and the results of their arduous struggle constitute the gains of the revolution and precious wealth for carrying out the revolution. Only when all succeeding generations champion, preserve and develop their predecessors’ ideas and accomplishments can the revolutionary cause continue to advance to brilliant consummation. Taking a nihilistic approach to their predecessors’ struggle and achievements, or denying them, amounts to retreating from the road of revolution and betraying it. Vilifying revolutionary seniors and defaming their ideas and accomplishments means disgracing the revolution and grovelling at the foot of the enemy of the revolution. The working-class party must, with unbroken consistency, unfailing loyalty to the revolution and unshakable confidence in this cause, carry forward and develop the socialism pioneered and advanced by the revolutionary predecessors. It must pay close attention to giving prominence to the revolutionary pioneers and to educating the people in the ideas and through the accomplishments of these pioneers.

The attitude towards revolutionary forefathers reflects the attitude of revolutionaries towards the revolution, as well as their morality.

Morality is a basic criterion for defining the qualities of a revolutionary. A revolutionary must hold not only revolutionary ideals as his belief, but also be equipped with genuine human qualities supported by noble moral principles. Conscience and the sense of obligation are laudable virtues unique to the human race; these are the source of the spiritual force that encourages people to conscientious and noble deeds. Even a person with advanced ideas cannot acquire noble human qualities, nor can he be a true revolutionary, unless he has a strong conscience and the sense of moral obligation.

Even in the old society, conscientious people valued morality, by which they evaluated personality and regarded immoral behaviour as unworthy of human beings. In an exploitative society, however, genuine morality cannot thrive or become dominant. Individualism, which is the basis of the exploitative society, cannot be compatible with true morality, and no relations of moral obligation can exist between the exploiting and exploited classes. Moral hypocrisy is the true nature of the exploiting class, and moral corruption is an inevitable product of the bourgeois society.

The most ennobling human qualities belong to the communists, who love their fellow people and fight in the cause of independence for the popular masses. Love for and trust in people are the basis of genuine human relations, the basis of human morality. Promoting the benefit of others rather than of oneself and working with devotion for one’s society and collective are an expression of a person’s noble morality. Because they treasure and love people and place social and collective interests above those of an individual, communists struggle with devotion for the good of their fellow people, their society and collective, not for selfish interests or personal fame. Communist revolutionaries love their comrades and fellow people with noble feelings of love for humanity, and devotedly struggle solely for the people, for their independence, with revolutionary conscience and a lofty sense of moral obligation. A man who shuts his eyes to the people’s interests, who is devoid of love for them and lacks conscience, loyalty and sympathy, cannot be a communist or a revolutionary.

Regarding revolutionary pioneers with respect is an inviolable revolutionary obligation. In spite of the difference in seniority in the relationship between seniors and juniors in the revolution, their relations are the comradeship of revolutionaries who fight in the same cause. The relationship between parents and children is kinship resulting mainly from actual physical birth, whereas the relationship among revolutionaries is the comradeship of fighters who share the same ideas, hardships and successes on the road of revolution and exalt their socio-political integrity, which is more precious to them than their physical lives. The kinship among revolutionaries represents a truly communist human relationship based on comradely love and revolutionary obligation. Communist revolutionaries’ outlook on morality and their moral qualities are characterized by their regarding it as a noble duty and honour to love their comrades most ardently and fulfil their revolutionary obligation to them. That is why revolutionaries consider it most shameful and treacherous to betray their comrades or to abandon conscience and loyalty in their mutual relationship.

For the heirs to the revolution to respect their revolutionary predecessors--the forerunners who dedicated their lives to the revolution and left a great heritage behind them—can be said to be a noble expression of revolutionary morality. Our revolutionary forerunners gave their lives unhesitatingly in the fight and made precious achievements for the country, the people and the happiness of the coming generations, not for the sake of personal interest or honour; our revolutionary forefathers shouted, “Love the future!” in do-or-die battles, or at the last moment of their lives on the gallows, precisely because they loved the coming generations. By their heroic struggle, the revolutionary forerunners paved the road of revolution, brought about enormous gains for the revolution, and ensured the flowering of an independent and creative new life for people. To respect their revolutionary predecessors, who fought devotedly for those who came after, is the next generations’ natural revolutionary obligation, its noble moral duty.

The highest representative of revolutionary elders is the leader, and loyalty to the leader is the highest expression of the sense of revolutionary obligation.

The leader of the working class is the guiding intellect and leader of the revolution. The popular masses make history, but they can hold the position of true masters of their destiny as independent makers of history and fulfil their role as such only when they receive the guidance of a pre-eminent leader. The leader puts forward scientific revolutionary ideas, strategy and tactics, inspires the masses with revolutionary consciousness and organizes them, guides the revolutionary struggle to victory, provides people with noble socio-political integrity and teaches them to lead honourable lives on the road of revolution. Under his leadership tens of thousands of revolutionaries grow up, and people come to struggle for the revolution. Under his leadership the socialist cause is pioneered and advanced victoriously. Thanks to his noble ideas and outstanding leadership, great revolutionary achievements are made, and the honour and dignity of the revolutionary generations are exalted.

Carrying forward the cause of independence for the popular masses, the cause of socialism, means none other than the continuation of the cause of the leader. Inheriting the ideas and achievements of the revolutionary predecessors means inheriting the leader’s revolutionary ideas and the achievements made under his leadership. Respect for revolutionary predecessors finds typical expression in loyalty to the leader. Being unfailingly loyal to the great leader through all generations is the duty of revolutionaries and the highest expression of the sense of revolutionary obligation. Revolutionaries must resolutely defend the ideas and exploits of the leader and loyally carry forward his revolutionary cause.

Historically, in opposing socialism, imperialists and renegades from the revolution have directed their attacks on the leaders of the working class and the revolutionaries of the preceding generation. This is because socialism was pioneered and has triumphed thanks to the guidance of the leader and the self-sacrificing struggle of the revolutionaries of the preceding generations, and because the dignity of socialism is associated with their honour. Modern revisionists and socialist renegades have caused socialism to degenerate and collapse by disgracing the leader and their revolutionary elders and by obliterating their exploits. The process of the degeneration and collapse of socialism began with the emergence of modern revisionism, which vilified the leader and revolutionary pioneers and distorted and debased the revolutionary ideas of the working class. Because of modern revisionists, socialism began to go off the track and crumble from within. Its collapse was due to the policy of “reform” and “restructuring”, pursued by socialist renegades who denied and obliterated every historical achievement of socialism. Opportunists and socialist renegades slandered the leaders of the working class and debased the sacred revolutionary struggle and great revolutionary achievements of their revolutionary predecessors. They destroyed socialism and revived capitalism. This is a most despicable counterrevolutionary crime that betrayed the revolution under the pressure of imperialism, an immoral perfidy that discarded loyalty to the revolution and trampled underfoot elementary human morals. Traitors to the revolution left no stone unturned in slandering and defaming their revolutionary predecessors. Thus they created ideological vacillation and confusion among the people and gave the imperialists and reactionaries the chance to slander the communists and socialism even more viciously.

The traitors gained the leading positions of the party and state through an intrigue and tarnished the honour of their revolutionary forerunners in an attempt to enhance their popularity and win support from the people. However, the top hierarchy of the party and state does not necessarily mean the leader, or enjoy the support and respect of the people. People’s confidence cannot be earned by means of power or fraud. If one wants to become a leader and enjoy people's confidence and support, one must have the personality and qualifications that befit a leader and fulfil the responsibility and role as such. A leader must, above all, be the people’s servant who loves and devotes himself to them. Love for the people and respect for revolutionary predecessors are inseparable. A person who loves the people and is loyal to them is bound to highly respect his revolutionary forerunners who struggled self-sacrificingly for the people. however, one who despises the people and lords it over them does not hesitate to disgrace his revolutionary elders in the most despicable way. The renegades from socialism attempted to vilify the revolutionary leaders and predecessors in a crafty way in order to enhance their own prestige. However, they have revealed their true colours as traitors, as well as their inhuman qualities. Those who have deceived their people and betrayed the revolution will inevitably be forsaken by the people.

True revolutionaries who fight for the people and for the victory of socialism must not forget their revolutionary forefathers; instead, they must defend and develop their achievements. This is the way to keep their revolutionary honour and dignity and lead the revolution to victory.

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